HollowKnight inspired painting

So to start off this painting is so heavily inspired by HollowKnight it should probably count as fan-art, though I'm not 100% sure...I need to look into the definitions a bit more. The background is inspired by the City of Tears and the Forgotten Crossroads, though I will say that at no point was the girl meant to be Hornet, she just ended up very fabric-y due to the Art Nouveau influences.

I actually did this sketch some time last summer, only getting round to using it now. Design wise I love it, I really like the Art Nouveau framing and the layers of perspective. I've always enjoyed comics, even did a little OU course on graphic novels, and once thing I really love is having something break past it or interact with the panel's edge: like how she holds onto the pillar. Maybe a little bit of my love for M.C. Escher as well in there.

Thoughts on bottom weighted mounting/ matboard

So my mum asked me why I don't bottom weight my mounting board and I fell into a bit of a rabbit hole trying to work out the answer. So here be my ramblings on the subject:

So to start off: Bottom weighted mounting board( or mat board) is when the bit of board in front and around the painting that keeps it away from the glass and hides rough edges has a wider section at the bottom than the top.